Many banned Chinese apps re-appear as India-China ties warm up
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Many banned Chinese apps re-appear as India-China ties warm up

India Today  

Remember hundreds of Chinese apps were banned in 2020? After four years, India Today's Open-Source Intelligence team reviewed more than 200 of the banned mobile applications and found that original or clone versions of at least 36 of them were available either on Google's Play Store or Apple's App Store or on both platforms as of February 10. Similarly, Xender was banned in June 2020 but is still available for users to download from Apple's App Store in India, though now its official name is "Xender:File Share, Share Music". Nearly a year after the ban on its "YOUKU" streaming app, Chinese conglomerate Alibaba launched another app named "YOUKU-Drama, Film, Show, Anime" on the Play Store and the Apple App Store. PUBG Mobile was banned in 2020 and relaunched in 2021 as 'Battlegrounds Mobile India' by South Korea's Krafton Inc, in which PUBG's original Chinese publisher reportedly has an over 13 per cent stake.

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